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The Post also claims that 'prosecution sources have even accused her of continuing to "entertain" male visitors while in a DA safe house'.

Strauss-Kahn was released from home confinement on July 1 after prosecutors told a judge the case had been hurt by 'substantial credibility issues'.

His $1million bail and $5million bond were ordered returned and he is no longer kept under armed guard.

Scandal: The Tribeca home where Strauss-Kahn was placed under armed guard and electronic surveillance after his release from Rikers Island prison

Luxury: Scalinatella restaurant, on Manhattan's East Side, where Strauss-Kahn dined on Friday when he was released from house arrest

'Propensity for lying': A prosecution letter reveals the maid who accused Strauss-Kahn had lied on her asylum application and on her tax returns

The woman told district attorney investigators that she fabricated the statement with help from a man who provided her with a cassette recording of the facts in the statement that she eventually submitted, the prosecution letter said.

By June 28, the district attorney's office had discovered $50,000 to $100,000 had been deposited in the woman's bank account over less than two years. The deposits were made from at least two states - Arizona and Georgia.

Strauss-Kahn was touted as a strong candidate to rival incumbent French president Nicolas Sarkozy in next year's general election.

But his arrest and subsequent resignation as head of the IMF caused a scandal among French politics and left his career in tatters.

STRAUSS-KAHN FACES FRESH SEXUAL ASSAULT INVESTIGATION

Claims: French writer Tristane Banon, 31, alleges Strauss-Kahn attempted to rape her during a book interview she carried out in 2002

It
comes as he faces a new sexual assault investigation after a young
French writer said she would formally accuse him of trying to rape her
during a 2002 interview.

Tristane
Banon, 31, described feeling 'sick' after seeing the former IMF chief
enjoying a meal in a luxury restaurant after he was released from home
confinement.

She told
French magazine L'Express: 'To see Strauss-Kahn freed then straight away
eat in a luxury restaurant with friends, that makes me sick.

'I only want one thing, that he comes back to France, with his presumption of innocence, so that we can go before a court.

'When I entered that flat, I immediately felt ill at ease. We started talking a bit, he offered me a coffee, I got out my dictaphone, he wanted us to go on the couch, then asked me to hold his hand, saying "otherwise I won't manage".

'I wanted to leave. He stopped the dictaphone, caught me by the arm. I asked him to let me go, and that's when the fight started.'

In 2007, Ms Banon told a French TV
show she had been attacked five years earlier by a politician she had
interviewed for a book in his apartment. She later identified the man as
Strauss-Kahn.

She told the
show: 'It finished very violently. I kicked him. He opened my bra. He
tried to undo my jeans. It finished very badly.'

Lawyer
David Koubbi said Ms Banon had been dissuaded from filing charges by
her mother, a regional councillor in Strauss-Kahn's Socialist party.

Her mother, Anne Mansouret, admitted on French television in May that she had urged her daughter not to rile a complaint.

Ms
Banon came forward again after he was arrested on May 14 at JFK
airport, but Mr Koubbi said his client had no intention of pressing
charges while the U.S. prosecution was going on because the two cases
should be kept separate.

Mr Koubbi said she was now moving forward with the case.

Lawyers
for Strauss-Kahn said he had 'always said that the incident described
by Ms Banon since 2007 is imaginary'. They have also indicated he
intends to sue Ms Banon for 'slanderous denunciation'.

A
joint statement said: 'He notes that this complaint comes quite
conveniently right at the moment when there is no longer the slightest
doubt about the false nature of the accusations against him in the U.S.'

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